apport: removing passwords from "modified.conffile..."

[Nigel Babu]

Hi Lars,

You could probably look at what I had done for the rhythmbox apport
hook.[1]  Take a look at the mask_values() function.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/rhythmbox/oneiric/view/head:/debian/source_rhythmbox.py

Regards
Nigel



On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Lars Duesing
<lars.duesing at camelotsweb.de> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I have another problem: How to remove passwords from apport-attachments
> which are automagically added?
> I have searched for modified_conffile throughout the sources, but cannot
> find anything, except in test-scenarios...
> In the file /etc/aiccu.conf and modified.conffile..etc.aiccu.conf.txt there
> are sensitive login-information:
>> username LxxxxxxE
>> password xxxxxxx
> maybe even in comments :(
>
> Lars
>
>
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